I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.